The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-10-13

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grace, and forever before the throne Of
God you will sing Of the "grace of our Lord
Jesus Christ, who, though He was rich, for
your sakes became poor"
Yes, yes; for your sakeSl 1t was not on
pleasure excursion that He came for it
was all pain. It was not on astronomical
exploration, for He knew this world as we'll
| before He alighted as afterward. 1t was
not because He was compelled to come, fer
He volunteered. 1t was not because it
was easy, for He knew that it would be-
thorn, and spike, and hunger, and thirst,
and vociferation of angry mobs. For your
sakes! Wipe away your tears. To for
give your wrongdoing, to companionship
your loneliness, to soothe your sorrows, to
sit with you by the new-made grave, to
bind up your wounds in the ugly battle
with the world and bring you home at last,
kindling up the mists that fall on your dy-
ing vision with the. sunlight of glorious
morn. For your sakes! No, 1 will change
that. Paul will not care, and Christ will
not care if change it, for l must get into
the blessedness OF the text myself, and so
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our temptations, and bereavements, aad
conflicts. For our sakes! We who de-
serve for our sins to be expatriated into q
world as much poorer than this earth was
poorer than heaven. For our sHkes
But what a fruitful coming down to take
us gloriously up. When Artaxerxes was
| hunting Tirebazus, who was attending him
| showed the King rent in his garment.
| The King said: "How shall mend it2"
| "By giving it to me" said Tirebaz0s.
Then the Kim gave him the robe, bat
! commanded him never to wear it as it would
be inappropriate. See the startling and
comforting fact, while our Prince throws
| off the habit He not only allows US to wear
it, but commands us to wear it, and it will
become us we'll, and for the over-ties Of
our spiritual sta. -'- may put on the
splendors of heave. regalement. For
Oul buhGb' ObS tut pOIbOudlltJ VI bAAo AV~
ligion! Not an abstraction, not an arch
under which we walk to behold elaborate
masonry, not an ice castle like that which
| Empress Elizabeth, of Russia, over 100
years ago ordered constructed, winter with
its trowel of crystal cementiug the hugo
| block that had been quarried from the
frozen rivers of the north, but a fathers
house with q wide hearth cracking
| hearty welcome. A religion of warmth and
| inspiration, and light, and cheer, some
| thing we can take into our hearts, and
homes, and business, recreatiuns, and
| joys, and sorrows. Not an unmanageable
| gift like the galley presented to Ptolemv,
| which required 4,OOO men to row, and ita
draught of water was so great that it could
| not come near the shore, but something
you can run up any stream of annoyance,
however shallow. Enrichment now, cn-
| richment forever!
Right about face! for You are going in the
wrong direction. While you are in
favorable mood for it, enter into life. Here
| and Just now decide everything that makes
for peace and Heaven. Ag0ssiz says thai
he has stood at one place in the Alps where
h. could throw a chip into the water in enc
direction, and it would roll on into the
German Ocean, or he could throw a chip
into the water in another direction, and il
would reach the Black Sea by the Danube,
or he could throw a chip in another direc-
ton, and it would enter the Mediterranean
by the Rhone. How far apart the Medi-
terranean, and the Black Sea, and the
German Ocean? Standing to-day on this
Alps of Gospel privilege, you can project
your soul into right currents, and it will roll
on into the ocean Of life, or project it in
the wrong direction, and it will roll into
the sea of death. But how far apart tho
two distances! May God help us to appre-
ciate more and more the momentous mean
ing of our text! The seven wise men OF
Greece we're chiefly known each for ona
apophthegm; Solon for the saying: "KnoW
thyself;" Periander for the saying: "Noth,
ing is impossible to industry" Chilo fol
the saying: "Consider the end" Thales
for the saying: "Suretyshipi is the precur-
sor of ruin" And Paul, distinguished fol
a thousand utterNnces, might we'll afford to
be memorable for the saying: "You know
the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that,
though He was rich, yet for your sakes be,
came poor, that ye through His poverty
might be rich."